FA Cup bracket challenge
You can still run a branded FA Cup challenge. Predict every tie round by round from the third round, or run a four-team bracket once the semi-final draw is made. Either way it carries your logo, your colours and your leaderboard.
Free to start. No credit card.
Set up a prediction league and add each round's ties as they are drawn, by hand or by CSV. Your players predict each tie before its lock time, and you confirm each result when the match ends. Jokers, margin prediction and the perfect round bonus all work on a custom sport competition.
When the semi-final draw is made, four teams and three matches remain, and that is a real bracket. Our team builds it from the draw, your players pick both semi-finals and the final, and we record each result as it is decided.
A prediction league and a bracket are separate competitions with their own leaderboards. The people who followed every round get a last, simple challenge for semi-final weekend.
Players join by invite link, or you can invite people in bulk from a CSV. The hub carries your logo and colours, and bracket pools let a department or a pub table compete inside your challenge.
Most advice for an FA Cup bracket assumes a tree exists on day one. It does not, and the draw format decides what you can run.
Compare the Champions League, where the round of 16 draw fixes every tie through to the final. The FA Cup redraws from the third round to the semi-finals, so a bracket before the last four would be invented by you, not by the tournament. We will not build a fictional tree and call it the FA Cup.
From the first round proper in 2026/27 there are no replays, so every tie produces a winner in one match. That suits a round-by-round predictor: your players pick a winner, you confirm the result, and the round is scored.
A four-team bracket is worth one point for each correct semi-final pick and two for the final, with ten more for the correct champion. That weighting is the same for every Fanzava bracket, and there is no upset bonus. Expect the leaderboard to turn on the champion pick.
Lower-league clubs beating Premier League sides is the story of the early rounds, and a round-by-round competition rewards the people who back them. A late bracket never sees those ties at all, which is why running both is worth considering.
A match level after 90 minutes goes to extra time and possibly penalties. Tell your players that a pick means the team that goes through, not the team ahead at 90 minutes, before the first tie of the round, not after it.
Sixty-three ties across four months is a lot to administer by hand. A hub keeps the leaderboard and lock times for you, and sends your players their reminders.
Run the FA Cup next to a Premier League predictor, a Champions League bracket or an office Six Nations league. One hub, one set of players, separate leaderboards.
Prediction leagues are on every plan, including Free. Brackets start above the Free plan, so the semi-final bracket needs a paid plan or a Bracket Pass.
Entry is free and Fanzava never handles entry money. People make predictions and a leaderboard ranks them.
Brackets start above the Free plan. Run them on Starter or higher, or pay once for a Bracket Pass that covers a single knockout tournament with no subscription. Included: Full white label · Fanzava watermark removed · Brackets.
All prices in pounds sterling. No VAT is added: business buyers only, and a VAT number is required at checkout. See Bracket Pass →
Free to start. No credit card.